By Julia Frey. Now in softcover!
This award-winning biography is the fullest portrait of the great French artist to date and is superbly illustrated with 84 photographs and 50 color plates. Frey traces Lautrec's (1864-1901) self-destructiveness and psychic pain resulting from congenital dwarfism and other issues, which led to his seeking refuge in art. In oils, lithographs and posters, Lautrec penetrated peoples masks and exposed the despair beneath the superficial gaiety of Paris. This book deals seriously and sensitively with Lautrec's progress as an artist, his academic training and the audacious use he put it to. Equally, readers in search of the ooh-la-la side of Paris during the Belle Époque won't feel short-changed. Almost everyone from Manet to the young Picasso crosses the stage. This is a page-turner you won't want to put down!
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Artists & Illustration 
